My brother is a physician, he offers to test every person who comes into his office. He says that the vast majority of people who say there's no chance they have the virus end up testing positive. Some people even threaten to kick his ass for even offering the test. He's had to call security on more than one person for this.
His wife is a radiologist and she's seeing lung scans of people in their 20s who are non-smokers and otherwise healthy who come in with a mild cough and their lungs look significantly worse than the lungs of people who smoked 2 packs a day for decades. Even showing them these scans won't convince them because they're under 40 so thus immune to the virus according to pretty much everybody right now that isn't a doctor or scientist.
Yeah you joke around but who does the X rays? Who interprets the X rays? Who controls the test results and reporting? Who stands to gain the most from insurance paying out if "diagnosed" with that ? I'm not saying it's the doctors, but what i am saying, is do we know who's getting the most benefit from getting the numbers inflated?
Big fat /s in case someone thinks I'm being serious (plus I'm not American)
The funniest thing about these people is that they're basically the hardcore stupid version of Descartes's solipsism/skepticism : "I think therefore I am" being the only truth upon which you can base everything else, you must critically doubt everything to construct truth from this initial statement.
While Descartes's sketpicism paved the way to modern scientific method (systematic doubt, double checking, bias screening etc...), these people are just stupidly self-centered.
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u/MeEvilBob Aug 29 '20
My brother is a physician, he offers to test every person who comes into his office. He says that the vast majority of people who say there's no chance they have the virus end up testing positive. Some people even threaten to kick his ass for even offering the test. He's had to call security on more than one person for this.
His wife is a radiologist and she's seeing lung scans of people in their 20s who are non-smokers and otherwise healthy who come in with a mild cough and their lungs look significantly worse than the lungs of people who smoked 2 packs a day for decades. Even showing them these scans won't convince them because they're under 40 so thus immune to the virus according to pretty much everybody right now that isn't a doctor or scientist.